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‘Parks are wild by nature’: Yosemite visitors undeterred by raging forest fires

Picnics, treks, camping and swimming continue despite hazardous air quality and ash in national park

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Yosemite’s sequoias survived the latest wildfire. Not all national parks will be so lucky

Watching these past weeks as firefighters battled to stop wildfire from spreading into Yosemite National Park’s famous Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia trees was an urgent reminder of the large-scale threat climate change poses to our national parks.

Los Angeles Times

Oak fire near Yosemite grows to 17,000 acres, destroys 10 structures

LOS ANGELES — Crews fighting the massive, still-growing Oak fire near Yosemite National Park reported some progress for the first time Monday morning, containing 10% of the almost 17,000-acre blaze.

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Firefighters contain 10% of growing 17,000-acre Oak fire near Yosemite

LOS ANGELES — Crews fighting the massive, still-growing Oak fire near Yosemite National Park reported some positive progress for the first time Monday morning, containing 10% of the almost 17,000-acre blaze.

Los Angeles Times

Firefighters slow growth of California blaze near Yosemite

Firefighters significantly slowed the spread of a smoky wildfire burning near Yosemite National Park

The Independent UK

Firefighters face punishing weather conditions in battle against raging fire near Yosemite

LOS ANGELES — A combination of heat, low humidity and parched vegetation continues to bedevil firefighters battling an inferno burning in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Yosemite that has forced thousands to flee their homes.

Los Angeles Times

Oak fire, California’s largest this year, explodes in size; thousands flee, towns threatened

LOS ANGELES — Firefighters were struggling to battle California’s largest fire of the season so far, a fast-moving inferno tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills west of Yosemite National Park that has burned at least 10 structures, forced several thousand people to flee their homes and is threatening multiple mountain…

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No containment of destructive California fire near Yosemite

There is no containment of a destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park that has grown into one of California’s biggest blazes of the year and forced thousands of residents to flee remote mountain communities

The Independent UK

Emergency declared as wildfire rages near Yosemite National Park in California

A state of emergency has been declared as firefighters tackled a 6,000-acre brush fire near Yosemite National Park in California.

Evening Standard

Emergency declared over fire near Yosemite National Park

Evacuation orders were put in effect on Saturday for over 6,000 people living near the site

Wales Online

Fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite remains uncontained

The Oak Fire started Friday afternoon southwest of the park near the town of Midpines. By Sunday, it had rapidly grown to 22 square miles.

WEKU

Explosive fire near Yosemite is California’s largest this year, forcing thousands to flee

LOS ANGELES —Firefighters were struggling to battle California’s largest fire of the season so far, a fast-moving inferno tearing through the Sierra Nevada foothills north of Yosemite that has burned at least 10 structures, forced several thousand people to flee their homes and is threatening multiple mountain communities.

Los Angeles Times

Wildfire near Yosemite National Park explodes in size

A fast-moving wildfire near Yosemite National Park has exploded in size and prompted evacuations even as firefighters made progress against an earlier blaze that burned to the edge of a grove of giant sequoias

The Independent UK

California's Oak Fire explodes in size near Yosemite, destroying homes and prompting evacuations

The blaze grew by more than 6,000 acres in one day.

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Washburn fire reaches 58% containment; Yosemite National Park plans to reopen southern entrance

LOS ANGELES — Two weeks after the Washburn fire ignited in Yosemite National Park, firefighters continue to make progress against the blaze that has scorched nearly 5,000 acres.

Daily Mirror

10 amazing travel-conscious holiday experiences from whale counting to eco-boating

Greater Palm Springs, Yosemite Mariposa County, Florida’s Paradise Coast, Kyushu in Japan and Tahiti all have worthwhile opportunities for the conscious traveller

Tribune News Service

Yosemite declined offer for retardant air-drop in Washburn Fire’s early hours. Here’s why

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Yosemite National Park officials wasted little time responding to the first reports of a fire burning in the Mariposa Grove on the afternoon of July 7.

Tribune News Service

Faye Flam: The world’s oldest trees can outlive anything except humans

What’s captured people’s attention about the Washburn fire raging in Yosemite isn’t just its size or scope, but the fact that it threatens a giant Sequoia with a name, Grizzly Giant, and an extreme age: It’s almost 3,000 years old.

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Face it, Yosemite lovers — sprinklers can’t save the Mariposa Grove forever

Californians are shutting off their irrigation systems to reduce water consumption amid a devastating, climate-driven drought. In Yosemite National Park, sprinklers were turned on in hopes of slowing the climate-driven Washburn fire from threatening the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias.

Los Angeles Times

Crews reach 50% containment on Washburn fire in Yosemite

Firefighters have made significant progress against the Washburn fire, which began July 7 in Yosemite National Park and has burned nearly 5,000 acres.

Tribune News Service

Sequoias safe for now, as lawmakers debate forest policies

Giant sequoias — thousand-year-old trees as large as 275 feet tall — came under threat this month from wildfires raging in central California’s Yosemite National Park, though firefighters have reported the blaze was contained before it encroached on trees in the park’s famous Mariposa Grove.

The Guardian - US

Yosemite wildfire continues to grow as it pushes east into Sierra national forest

Giant sequoias still safe as firefighters face challenges from the warm and dry conditions fueling the blaze

Roll Call

Sequoias safe for now, as lawmakers debate forest policies - Roll Call

A narrow escape for a national treasure fuels debate in Congress about how to reduce wildfires in Yosemite and other federal lands.

The Independent UK

Yosemite wildfire moving east into Sierra National Forest

A wildfire that threatened a grove of California’s giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park is burning eastward into the Sierra National Forest

Tribune News Service

Yosemite fire: Why giant sequoia trees are surviving now when others died in recent fires

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — Last year and the year before, in an unprecedented environmental disaster, wildfires in California’s Sequoia National Park and nearby national forests roared through treasured sequoia groves in the Southern Sierra Nevada, generating flames hundreds of feet high and killing nearly 20% of all the ancient…

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